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S Vl E N R 0 T T A Patented Oct. 25, |898.

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H. P. LEE..

SWIFT 0B REEL.

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ATTOH N EYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY PALMER LEE, OF STONINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

SWIFT OR REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 612,971, dated October25, 1898.

Application filed March l, 1,898.

To @ZZ `whom it may concern.:

Be it known' that I, HARRY PALMER LEE, residing at Stonington, in thecounty of New London and State of Connecticut,hav'e invented certain newand useful Improvements in Adjustable Swifts, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to swifts, and has for its object to produce anadjustable swift eX- pressly adapted for winding-machines where silks,cottons, or any other materials are wound. To this end my inventionconsists in the construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

My invention will be understood by referring to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional view of the hub of mynewly-invented swift. Fig. 2 is a side view of the hub, showing theswift partly expanded-that is to say, adjusted. Fig. 3 is a side view,partly in section, the section being taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 andshowing the swift more fully expanded and likewise showing the line l l,on which the section of Fig. l was taken when the swift was in itsclosed or unexpanded condition. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 of Fig.3, looking in4 the direction of the arrow; and Fig. 5 is a section online 4 4 of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow 5.

In the drawings, c. are stir-rups or threadreceiving means, each ofwhich is carried by a plurality of arms b c, which are jointed togetherat d and pivotally connected to the disks or carriers e f, respectively,each of which disks is connected to a part of a hub g h, whose parts aremovable with respect to each other. These disks are preferablycorrugated, as shown. The arms b c bear the relation of spokes to thehub. The disk e is carried upon the part g and the disk f is carriedupon thepart h, the said hub being secured together by a shaft-1I, shownin the present instance as a bolt. The parts are held from rotating uponeach other by a frictional bearing comprising a spring j, contained in acavity 7c in the part 71,. The part h is likewise shown as provided withan annular groove Z, in which a lug m is provided, which lug is adaptedto coperate with a pin ln, carried by the disk e. The stirrups a areSerial No. 672,148. (No model.)

preferably bent up of wire 'and preferably consist of a horizontal wirel, provided with the upwardly-projecting bights or bends 2, flanked bythe upward bends 3, forming the notches or recesses 4, from which theends 5 project downward and are united at the joint d. As beforeexplained, the supporting-arms b c of each of these stirrups areconnected to opposite disks or carriers g h, which disks or carriersbeing rotatable with respect to each other will bring the ends of thesaid arms b c nearer to or farther from each other, and consequentlywill expand or contract the swift by moving the stirrups outwardorinward.

By referring to Figs. land 2 it will be noted that the arms b arepivotally secured to the disk e, while the arms c are pivotally securedto the disk f, so that as the disks are rotated with respect to eachother the ends of component pairs of arms b c will be brought nearer toor moved farther from each other, thereby expanding or contracting theswift. For instance, the arms b c which support any individual stirrupare shown in Fig. l at about two hundred and forty-eight degrees apart,whereupon the eifective circumference of the swift is represented by thedotted line in the said gure. the arms h c are shown as about onehundred and thirty degrees apart, the swift has been thereby expanded,so that the effective circumference is that represented by the dottedline in this figure, and so likewise of Fig. 3, where the disks havebeen further rotated, so as to bring the ends of the arms b c stillnearer together and further expand the swift. The notches or jogs 4 arefor the purpose of providing a resting-place or bearing for the loop ofcord or elastic 6, which may be placed therein, so as to thereby afforda more yielding bearing for the thread when it is being unwound from theswift, it being necessary when operating with tender thread, such assome kinds of silks, that the swift should yield a little in order toobviate the danger of breaking the thread.

The hub h g, when the swift is used on winding-machines, will serve asa` shaft for the swift and may be formed at the outer ends g h to go inbearings wherever desired.

It will be obvious that the device may be used as areel, and it is to beunderstood that In Fig. 2, however, where IOO Wherever I have used theWord swift I mean to thereby include reeL What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A swift or reel, having a hub, arms extending therefrom and providedwith stirrups ct bent up of Wire and having recesses 4 and with yieldingloops or cords G resting in the said recesses.

2. In aswift, the combination of a hub having a plurality of movableparts, plates e f carried by the said movable parts and provided witharms b c pivoted to the said plates joined at their extremities andprovided with thread-supporting means, substantially as described,carried thereby, one of the said parts of the hub being provided Withthe recess Z and the other of the said parts being provided with the pinfn, entering the said recess l and a stop 'm for receiving the impact ofthe pin n.

3. In a swift, the combination of a hub having a plurality of movableparts, plates e f carried by the said movable parts and provided Witharms b c pivoted to the said plates joined at their extremities andprovided with thread-supporting means, substantially as described,carried thereby, one of the said parts of the hub being provided withthe recess Z and the other of the said parts being provided With the pinn entering the said recess Z and a stop m for receiving the impact ofthe pin a, combined with a spring 7c carried in a recess j of one of theparts of the hub.

4. In a swift, the combination of a plurality of thread-supportingmeans, a plurality of plates e f, arms b o secured by their extremitiesto the said plates and to each other, whereby an expanding reel isproduced, substantially as described, and a hub provided with aplurality of movable parts, each of which parts carries one of theplates e f and a spring lo intervening between the said movable partsand adapted to frictionally hold the same from turning on each other,substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

HARRY PALMER LEE. Witnesses:

JOHN H. RYAN, GEO. I-LRoBINsoN.

